State of L2s on Filecoin
Explore the state of Layer 2 solutions on Filecoin, featuring innovations like Basin, Akave, and Storacha Network. Learn how these advancements are shaping the future of decentralized storage and data management.
What Is Filecoin (FIL) “Staking”?
Unlike proof-of-stake cryptocurrency protocols that directly provide rewards for locking staked tokens, “staking” FIL is much more akin to a lease.
Guide: How to use FIL on the FVM Ledger and Metamask (0x)
This guide outlines how to transfer FIL from your Ledger wallet to your MetaMask wallet, and how to use Ledger to secure your Metamask wallet for the FVM. Transfer FIL From Ledger to Metamask To access dApps on the Filecoin Virtual Machine (FVM), you need FIL in a 0x/f410 wallet address. However, Ledger Live has […]
Why AI Needs Blockchain
Until recently, startups led the way in technological innovation due to their speed, agility, entrepreneurial culture, and freedom from organizational inertia. However, this is no longer the case in the rapidly growing era of AI.
Decentralized Storage and Commerce in Web 3
Distributed Storage Networks (DSNs) offer a way to coordinate and utilize these latent resources and turn them into productive assets. These networks have the potential to bring the first real commerce vertical into Web 3 ecosystems.
Guide: How to transfer FIL from Coinbase to a Metamask Wallet (0x)
In order to access dApps on the Filecoin Virtual Machine (FVM), you need to have FIL in a 0x/f410 wallet address. However, several popular exchanges have not yet been updated to support the direct transfer of FIL to a 0x/f410 address. If you need to move FIL from an exchange that does not yet support 0x/f410 addresses […]
Filecoin Virtual Machine: How It Works, What Use Cases It Unlocks, and Why It Matters
This blog post explains what Filecoin’s Virtual Machine (FVM) is, why it matters, and how one might evaluate and prioritize the opportunities it unlocks.
Business Models on the FVM
In this blogpost, we’ll unpack a sample use case and its supporting components for the FVM, how these services might compose together, and the potential business opportunities behind them.
Filecoin Tokenomics: Understanding an Advancing Economy
As a novel data storage and application network, Filecoin’s mission is to create a decentralized, efficient, and robust foundation for humanityʼs information.
State and Direction of Filecoin, Summarized.
Filecoin is enabling open services for data, built on top of the IPFS protocol.
IPFS allows data to be uncoupled from specific servers —reducing the siloing of data to specific machines.